From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: Carlo Wood <carlo@runaway.xs4all.nl>
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com (egcs@cygnus.com)
Subject: Re: Why is this list so slow? 
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 14:30:00 -0000
Message-id: <10551.899068754@hurl.cygnus.com>
References: <199806281546.RAA24128@jolan.ppro>
X-SW-Source: 1998-06/msg01032.html

  In message < 199806281546.RAA24128@jolan.ppro >you write:
  > Heya,
  > 
  > sometimes it takes over 24 hours before a post to this list
  > makes it back to me.  Why is this list so slow?  It isn't
  > moderated is it? :)
It's just the way things are.  Our mailserver handles several large
lists.

We could make the turnaround time faster, but attempts to do so make
things *much* worse when traffic is higher than normal as the mailserver
will fall further and further behind.

Long term we'll probably drop sendmail and use a more list efficient
mailer, but until then (an that may be a long time) the list will
probably continue to have a relatively long latency.

jeff